White House Won’t Seek to Raise Minimum Age to Purchase Guns After All
Karen Grigoryan/Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In response to the Parkland shooting last month that left 17 dead, the White House has announced its plan of action that stops short of any major changes to gun laws or imposing a minimum-age requirement that would have drawn opposition from the gun lobby. The…
California Secessionists Are Hoping For A Trump Bump
Mother Jones illustration; Viktorcvetkovic/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Adam Ringel felt the stirrings of national pride at an early age. “Ever since was I a kid, I identified as a Californian, not an American,” he recalled as he sat in the back of a café in San Francisco’s Mission…
The ACLU Is Accusing Nebraska of Illegally Obtaining Death Penalty Drug
Nebraska’s death chamberNate Jenkins/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new letter to the Drug Enforcement Agency from the American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska is calling on the DEA to investigate Nebraska State Penitentiary officials for allegedly illegally obtaining drugs to use in lethal injections. Records obtained by the ACLU…
Trump is Reshaping the Census to Reflect His Vision of America
liveslow/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump is threatening the 2020 census from every direction: Cutting its budget, scaring immigrants away from answering its questions, and prohibiting the Census Bureau from hiring the best people for the job. While we have to defend this invaluable source of…
“All at Once” May Be Screaming Females’ Best Album Yet
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Screaming FemalesAll at OnceDon Giovanni Marissa Paternoster knows how to make a racket. The leader of the window-rattling New Jersey trio Screaming Females plays vicious guitar, splitting the difference between punk fury and metal majesty, and sings with a controlled urgency guaranteed to command your…
Frustrated in Court, Trump Administration Seeks to Change the Federal Balance of Power
Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at a press conference regarding opioid policy at the Justice Department last month. Shen Ting/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last April, when a federal judge in Hawaii blocked the Trump administration’s effort to ban entry to people from six Muslim-majority nations,…